On the evening of October 1, 1978, Clarence Trusty was shot and killed at the Shell gas station at 5191 West Route 58 in Chesapeake, Virginia. The shooting was ruled a homicide; investigators opened a case but no viable suspects were publicly identified and no arrests were ever made. The file is listed among the Chesapeake Police Department’s cold case homicides.

Decades after the killing, a member of the public alleged during a comment period that Trusty had been in a dispute with a Chesapeake police lieutenant before his death and suggested that lieutenant was responsible. That allegation has not led to any public charges or reported developments.

Did anyone who knew Clarence Trusty, or who worked at that Shell station in 1978, see or hear anything that could help resolve this cold case?